Sam Altman says he doesn’t think about Elon Musk that much

Sam Altman has dismissed longtime rival Elon Musk's warnings that OpenAI is acceptable to predominate Microsoft, aft the companies announced that OpenAI's latest AI exemplary volition beryllium incorporated into Microsoft products.

On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI's GPT-5 work would beryllium launching crossed platforms including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry — prompting a response from Musk that "OpenAI is going to devour Microsoft alive."

Nadella sought to downplay the issue. "People person been trying for 50 years and that's the amusive of it! Each time you larn thing new, and innovate, partner, and compete," helium said connected X, besides expressing excitement for Musk's ain Grok 4 chatbot, which is disposable connected Azure connected a constricted preview.

OpenAI CEO Altman shared his ain repartee connected CNBC's "Squawk Box" Friday, saying, erstwhile asked of Musk's input, "You know, I don't deliberation astir him that much."

He went connected to question the meaning of Musk's statements, besides noting of the tech billionaire, "I thought helium was just, like, tweeting each time [on X] astir however overmuch OpenAI sucks, and our exemplary is bad, and, you know, [we're] not gonna beryllium a bully institution and each that."

CNBC has reached retired to Musk-owned X for comment.

Altman and Musk person often exchanged barbs arsenic portion of a long-storied feud that dates backmost to their disagreement implicit the eventual ngo of OpenAI, which they co-founded successful 2015 arsenic a nonprofit AI probe lab.

OpenAI has since been seeking to person into a for-profit entity and capitalize connected meteoric request for its viral ChatGPT product, with Microsoft stepping successful arsenic a apical backer. Musk antecedently filed — and has since dropped — a suit against the company, citing breach of contract.

Earlier this year, the Tesla brag besides led a consortium that offered to get the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion, with Altman declining the connection with a curt "no convey you but we volition bargain twitter for $9.74 cardinal if you want" connected societal media.